Alcohol Abuse Advice

Interventions Run by Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers

The intervention process is quite intensive and may rely on the help of all the family members in order for it to be successful. The place where the intervention will take place is the key to getting the person there. It has to be a location that is safe and secure for the addict. It has to be somewhere familiar or they will suspect the worse. The drug and alcohol treatment is administered later, but the interventionist has to be able to convince the addict that unless they get help, their life is over.

The family also has to be involved and actively participate in the process to make it work. If the family is not involved in the intervention, it will not work because the addict has to be lured to the location by a family member that they trust.

A treatment facility has an interventionist who is trained in getting the addict to treatment. If the addict refuses to go, the interventionist is unable to physically remove that person. However, the family members can be convincing enough and show how much the addiction is hurting the entire family for the addict to relinquish their unwillingness and accept the offer of recovery.

Each family member will read a script that they prepared after the pre-intervention phase where the interventionist meets with all the family members at one time and brief them on what will transpire the next day, which is usually the day of the intervention. A lot of these script are well thought out and written from the heart. Each family member will tell exactly what the person’s addiction has done in their lives. It can be heart wrenching to hear the words read to the addict, who will show some type of emotion whether it is tears, sadness, anger, guilt or shame.

The love that each family member has for the addict will be revealed in those words and in that moment. It is what is said that may spark anger, resentment or sadness. Sometimes, the addict will blame a specific family member for their problems. In most cases, the parents are usually the ones that get the first attack from the addict. However, the interventionist from the drug and alcohol treatment center is generally able to put things back into perspective and get everyone to be more controlled.

The enabler or enablers will be pointed out during the pre-intervention phase and will be asked to relinquish their role as enablers. They will ask for forgiveness of the addict into being enablers and will let the addict know that they no longer will fund their habit. It is a startling revelation to the addict and this new information will ignite some kind of response into accepting the call for help.